BonFIRE 2.0 released

BonFIRE version 2.0 has been released, which is the result of many
months hard work to bring many new features and improvements to the
experimenters in BonFIRE. The main additions of this release are:

Infrastructure monitoring

Release 1 of BonFIRE supported monitoring of VMs, including application level monitoring specified by the experimenters. Now, experimenters can also get monitoring metrics from the physical infrastructure that the experiment VMs are running on!

New Portal interface

The portal incorporates all the new features introduced in release 2, such as supporting managed experiments (as per experiment descriptors) and easy access to monitoring information.

Experiment Descriptor

BonFIRE now supports experimenters with experiment descriptors, which make life a lot easier to define and deploy an experiment. We now also support user specifiable near-end-of-experiment
triggers to run scripts to e.g archive data.

This is ideal for defining large experiments, sharing experiment deployments with colleagues and repeating experiments. To find out more, click [here].

Extended OCCI and BonFIRE API functionality

BonFIRE promotes open standards and continue to extend the support for functionality via OCCI and the BonFIRE API. In release 2, this includes, for example:

Support for Virtual Wall network QoS parameters
through OCCI

Extended specification of metric parameters through
OCCI

Monitoring API available via the BonFIRE Broker

Improved OCCI error handling

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European